JUNE 1919

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Midaroku ( 弥陀六)
         
Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: 06/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
            Kumagai Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実)
 
            Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
            (一谷嫩軍記)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 06/05/19
            Print Date: 06/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Note: This design was posthumously
            reissued in a slightly different color           
            scheme when Kichiemon I reprised this
            role at the Shintomi-za in March 1922.
 
 
 
 

               
                Nakamura Kichiemon I
                (中村吉右衛門) as    
                Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)

                Play: Kumagai Jin'ya (熊谷陣屋),
                Act III, Scene 3 of Ichi-no-Tani Futaba
                Gunki (一谷嫩軍記))
                Performance Place:  Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date:  06/05/19
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
                (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
                Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
                Dainihen Series 2
                (歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #7
                Personal Collection
   
                Note: Kichiemon I also performed this
                role at the Ichimura-za in February 1916.

            
            Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
            Yoshitsune (義経)
 
            Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
            (一谷嫩軍記)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 06/05/19
            Print Date: 06/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)

Play: Megumi no Kenka (め組の喧嘩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #1]
Personal Collection

Note: This print is not signed, but
the artist of certain other pochibukuro in
the set has been identified as Fujisawa,
and a signed postcard version exists.
 
 
 
 

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)

Play: Megumi no Kenka (め組の喧嘩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: 06/1919?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)

Play: Megumi no Kenka (め組の喧嘩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #2]
Personal Collection

                 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kagatobi Gorôji (加賀鳶五郎次)

Play: Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀鳶)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/19
Print Date: 1920
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art
 

                 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ôgushi Jirô (大串次郎)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tamate Gozen (玉手御前)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Gorôji (雷五郎次)
 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助: 澤村宗之助) as Minosuke (巳之助)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Umeyoshi (梅吉)
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Banjaku Ishimatsu (磐石石松)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Dôgen (道玄)
  
Plays: Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀鳶); Sesshû Gappô-ga-Tsuji (州合邦辻);
Kamakura Bushi (鎌倉武士)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/19
Print Date: 06/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum